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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Was TC Williams ever in Fairfax County schools?  I attended an FCPS school that played them in sports.  The school had a decent reputation then.  Do they still play against FCPS schools in sports?[/quote]

What happened was that Alexandria got both much richer and poorer at the same time, with many middle class families moving out, both getting squeezed by property costs and cost of living.  The new residents are often either poorer immigrants and upper middle class and wealthy professionals.

So what you were probably used to, lots of middle class TC Williams students from military and government families, have basically moved to Fairfax County or Prince William County.  I'm not saying that they don't exist anymore, but their numbers are much smaller.

The rich and upper class families can afford private school and send their kids to them, opting out of public school by the time middle school happens.  So TC Williams has a very large population of public housing kids and English as a second language kids that really struggle and score really bad on standardized exams.

The college track kids are basically separated from the rest for most of their college prep classes, but I think a lot of families have concerns.  My neighbor's daughter got involved with a bad crowd her jr and sr year, basically the "school is for losers" crowd, and was made to think she was a nerd.  She lost interest in school and instead of getting A's, she got mostly B's and a few C's the last few years.  She drove her mother crazy and is finally turning things around in college where more students care about doing well in school.[/quote]

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